Description
- Number and proportion of First Nations and non-Indigenous children enrolled in year before fulltime schooling
- Proportion of First Nations and non-Indigenous male children enrolled in year before fulltime schooling
- Proportion of First Nations and non-Indigenous female children enrolled in year before fulltime schooling
Data period
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
Data source
ABS Preschool Education, via the Australian Government Productivity Commission website < https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/dashboard/socioeconomic/outcome-area3 >.
Region types reported
- Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2021 Main Structure regions: States and Territories, Australia
Suppression rules
Measure based on publicly available data. No further suppression rules applied.
Notes
- Enrolment proportions at the sub-national level (such as state and territory) may exceed 100 per cent for some areas due to the numerator and denominator being from different sources. The population (denominator) data are the best available estimates. However, the accuracy of population estimates tends to decrease the further away the year from the Census upon which they are based (currently the Dashboard uses population data based on the 2016 Census).
- Data for Preschool Education, Australia are collected through the National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection (NECECC). Data are not fully comparable over time, or across jurisdictions, due to differences and changes in coverage and methodologies.
- Data values have been randomly adjusted using perturbation to avoid the release of confidential data. Discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.
- Methods for the identification of Indigenous status vary by jurisdiction. For data supplied via the Australian Government's child care subsidy system (CCSS), children of families who choose not to identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander are classified as ‘non-Indigenous’ rather than ‘unknown/not stated’. Nationally in 2022, YBFS preschool enrolments with a ‘not stated’ Indigenous status were 0.5 per cent of all YBFS preschool enrolments. (Tasmania had the largest proportion with 4.5 per cent, followed by SA with 4.3 per cent).
Reference material
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2023), Preschool Education, ABS website, accessed 13 November 2023.
ABS (2023), Preschool Education methodology, ABS website, accessed 13 November 2023.
Productivity Commission (PC) (2023), Socioeconomic outcome area 3, Productivity Commission website, accessed 10 October 2023.
